Regiment - Ren-tai (English spelling) regiment

Japanese: 連隊 - れんたい（英語表記）regiment

A tactical unit formed from several battalions. Three or four regiments make up a division, a strategic unit capable of carrying out independent operations. Two or three regiments can also form a brigade, the largest tactical unit. In the former Imperial Japanese Army, three or four battalions, with 1,500 to 2,500 soldiers, were usually commanded by a colonel. Conscripts and garrison bases for peacetime soldiers were organized on a regiment-wide scale. Today's JGSDF regiments are not organized from battalions, but rather are organized into four units with four companies directly connected, and four regiments make up a division (with 9,000 soldiers).

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Japanese:

大隊をいくつか集めて編制する戦術単位の部隊。3～4個連隊で独立した作戦実施能力をもつ戦略単位としての1師団となる。また2～3個連隊で戦術単位としては最大の1旅団を形づくることもある。旧日本陸軍では，3～4個大隊，兵員数 1500～2500，普通は大佐が指揮した。平時兵員の徴集とその駐屯基地は連隊規模で構成されていた。現在の陸上自衛隊の連隊は，大隊からの編制でなくて4個中隊が直結する4単位編制をとっており，4個連隊で1師団 (隊員数 9000) を構成する。

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